Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.

As long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.